CURRICULUM VITAE AND CATALOGUED WORKS: Gordon Mckenna

AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
2004: Grants for individual artists. Arts Council England. London
2002: ArtsAdmin, Digital arts Bursary, London.
2002: Space Place, Individual learning programme. London.
2001: Artist in residence, “The Fire Station Project”, ACME Studios, London
2001: Aberdeen Visual Arts Awards. Aberdeen. Scotland
1998: John Kinross Scholar in Florence. Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. Scotland

PUBLICATIONS
DVD “everything I have ever made” 2007
12:00 Book of cards, Acme Studios, January 2005
CD-ROM “stiched” limited edition of 10, 2000
A-N Artist Newsletter June 2004 and January 2001

COLLECTIONS
Live Art Development Agency, London
Acme Studios, London
The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
London Disability Arts Forum, London
Shape, London
Camden Arts Centre, London

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2009: Rules and Regs 2009. The Bluecoat and Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Liverpool.
2008: Tenderpixel Film Festival London
2007: Fresh – winter 2007: festival of live art, South Hill Park.
2005: East End Collaborations: Live Art Development Agency, London
2005: 12:00 - 12:00: The Fire Station, Acme Studios, London
2004: Outake: 6th Disability Film Festival, NFT London
2004: Triple Decker: Curator; Philip Ryder. Red Church Str, London.
2003: Open Studio: ArtsAdmin. Toynbee Hall, London
2003: Mirrors Signals, Manoeuvres: Camden Arts Centre, London.
2003: Islington People: Film and Video Workshop. London
2000: Merge: The Balmedie Project. Aberdeenshire

QUALIFICATIONS
Masters in Art and Design, 1999. Grays School Of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland.
BA Hon. Fine Art and Design, 1998. Grays School Of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Other Web Sites representing work for Gordon McKenna
http://www.gordonmckenna.co.uk
http://www.acme.org.uk/worklive.php
http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/projects/bursary-artists.php?bursary=9
http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/prof_dev/eec_everything/eec_05.html
http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/Study_Room/dvd_video.shtml
http://www.psi12.qmul.ac.uk/archive/conference/index.html
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/documents/publications/phpbvrZBE.pdf
http://www.camdenartscentre.org/file-uploads/File/Education-Pack-Kerry-James-Marshall.pdf
http://www.youthartslondon.co.uk/members.htm

CATALOGUED WORKS
LIST OF WORKS FOR SALE

Installation Moving Image Works
Supplied as installation DVD with installation instructions and archive copies in DVD-RAM and DV-CAM.
Talking to walls. 1998 - Five copies with resale and public exhibition rights - £7000.00 each copy.
Wrap. 2004 - Five copies with resale and public exhibition rights - £7000.00 each copy.

Film Works
Supplied as viewable DVD with archive copies in DVD-RAM and DV-CAM.
Merge. 2000. Duration 6.5 min. Five copies with resale and public exhibition rights. £7000.00 each copy.
Wash. 2001. Duration 2.5 min. Five copies with resale and public exhibition rights. £7000.00 each copy.
Monkey. 2005. Duration 3min 26 sec. Five copies with resale and public exhibition rights. £7000.00 each copy.

Photographic Works
Soundless. 2005. Selected photographic stills from original films (6 x 10 inches). Limited edition of one of each frame. £150.00 each.
Headwash. 2001. Selected photographic stills from original films (8 x 10 inches). Limited edition of one of each frame. £150.00 each.
Handwash. 2001. Selected photographic stills from original films (8 x 10 inches). Limited edition of one of each frame. £150.00 each.
Mouthwash. 2001. Selected photographic stills from original films (8 x 10 inches). Limited edition of one of each frame. £150.00 each.

OuTake. 2004. Remnant installation of 60 images each 5 x 7 inches. One Copy at £6000.00
The images are made up of every 25th frame taken from the first performance of OuTake held at the 6th London Disability Film festival in 2004.

Print Works
Supplied as Best Archive Quality Ink Jet Print on hammermauler Paper 300gms.
Rose. 21 cm wide x 30 cm high. Limited Edition of 25 - £200.00 each. 23 Available.
Flap. 21 cm wide x 30 cm high. Limited Edition of 25 - £200.00 each. 24 Available.
Wrap (originally called Indoors). 21 cm wide x 30 cm high. Limited Edition of 25 - £200.00 each. 24 Available.
Wife. 21 cm wide x 30 cm high. Limited Edition of 25 - £200.00 each.
Trio. 21 cm wide x 30 cm high. Limited Edition of 25 - £200.00 each.

Following on from an artist residency in Florence Italy as a John Kinross Scholar from the Royal Scottish Academy I started making action inspired works during my Masters Degree at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen Scotland in 1998. Although I studied Painting and Drawing at the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg, Republic of South Africa for several years my work took on a more physical approach during my studies in Scotland. I attributed this to a desire to explore the relationship between images and three dimensional spaces. This notion or desire, to imbue the work with an idea of the real experience has continued through my work since. Although these ideas have taken on a very sculptural and action based form all the resulting art works remain 2-D. These works form two groups namely Films and Installations.

FILMS Format - All DVD
Merge: 6 min 2000.
Permission was granted by the local Ranger to take cultivated Maram grass from a site outside Balmeadie along the Aberdeenshire coastline and plant it on a beach further down the road in ladder shapes from the waters edge to the tops of the dunes where the grass is used in conservation. This area of the Scottish countryside has featured heavily in the news recently as Donald Trump wishes to build near the original site of this installation.
Wash: 2.5 min approx. 2001.
Wash is the first film work that I made during The Fire Station Residency in London 2001 - 2004, where I was producing work with the support of a stipend from Acme Studios, London, artist in residence programme.
Monkey: 3.5 min 2005.
Monkey is the result of a very large installation of approximately 5000 photographs thoughout London. This performance work took place during the summers of 2003 - 2005 and was made with the support of a Digital artist bursary from ArtsAdmin, London 2002. Monkey premiered at the Live Art development Agency, East End Collaborations in 2005 and subsequently headlined in the film section of Fresh Festival of Live Art, Winter 2007, curated by Richard Kingdom.

INSTALLATIONS
Talking to walls: 1998. 142 min Looping DVD must be viewed on 12 inch monitor no sound. To Camera performance in artist studio Grays School of Art.
Wrap: 2004. 120 min Looping DVD must be viewed either: on 12 inch monitor with good quality sound/headphones, or wall size projection (must reach floor to cieling) with sorround sound. To Camera performance in artist studio at the Fire Station, london .
Soundless: 2002 - 2005. Performance installation with ideally a live feed film installation or remnant film from previous performance (remnant film duration 2.5 min looping DVD). Performance duration approx 6 hours. The artist needs access to all surfaces in the gallery during the performance to project frame by frame with a portable projector the film called do you hear me.
Previous performance and installation
Triple Decker 2002 - redchurch street, London. Curator Phillip Ryder.
The Firestation 12:00 - 12:00 2005. Made for the event to mark the end of the four year residency.
Outtake: 2004. Performance installation or Remnant of previous performances.
A commissioned 1 min film is turned into 1500 photographs and is played out by being given away frame by frame. Every 25th frame is kept to make a remnant of the installation and this forms a large installation of 60 (5 x 7 inch each) images.
Previous performance and installation
6th London Disability film Festival 2004, This project was funded by a grant for an Individual Artist from London Arts.